A Ugandan journalist who had reported on the alleged involvement of a local politician in the theft of donated solar panels has been charged under the country’s criminal-defamation laws, according to the Human Rights Network for Journalists – Uganda (HRNJ). The journalist, Ronald Ssembuusi of Uganda’s Central Broadcasting Service (CBS), had aired a story in […]

All 27 members of the Executive Board of the International Press Institute (IPI), the world’s oldest global press freedom organisation, today passed a resolution strongly condemning an escalating campaign by the Iranian government to silence free and independent media in Iran. International broadcasters including the BBC, Deutsche Welle and Voice of America have all recently […]

Lea en español Two Brazilian journalists working near the Paraguayan border were killed over the weekend, less than a week after the International Press Institute (IPI) released a special report warning of increased violence against the media in Brazil’s frontier regions. The deaths of newspaper owner Onei de Moura and radio reporter Divino Aparecido Carvalho, […]

Read in English Dos periodistas brasileños que trabajaban cerca de la frontera con Paraguay fueron asesinados durante el fin de semana, sólo unos días después de que el Instituto Internacional de la Prensa (IPI, por sus siglas en inglés), publicara un reporte especial que advertía sobre el incremento de la violencia contra los medios de […]